🚨 🚨Call to Action🚨🚨DESE’s NEW CDC Sex Ed & SEL Standards - Public Comment by 4/24/24.
Rehder/Bishop’s New Sex Ed Standards are mandating CDC WSCC, SEL, NHES, & HECAT into public school health class as a requirement to graduate high school. Public comment by 4/24/24.
Public Comment ends April 24, 2024.
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All of the glossary of terms and standards should be rejected. Strongly disagree with ALL terms and standards.
Explanation will be further down in this article.
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NHES standards are national standards that do not align with the state statute. These standards go to far into behavioral and values change. These are not academic standards, and go against the beliefs of the parent/families of the student.
This standard 2 states: “analyze characteristics of healthy relationships and how power differences (e.g., age, race/ethnicity, sex, gender, socio-economic status) impact relationships.” This is extremely decisive and goes against family values.
Standard 3: talking to “other trusted adults about issues related to growth and development, relationships, sex, and sexual and reproductive health services.“ is concerning as that adult will not be the parent/guardian, and it is not stated whether there will be informed consent of a parent for that student to talk to that “trusted adult.”
Standard 4: This section is problematic: “Demonstrate effective communication skills to promote healthy relationships and sexual and reproductive health, including asking for assistance from parents, caregivers and trusted adults as well as support for peers whose aspects of their sexuality are different from one’s own.” Seeking help from adults that are not the parent or guardian for “reproductive health” and forcing students to affirm others sexuality.
Standard 5: These standards have behavioral change indicators that are not appropriate for public schools to be crafting and forming these values for the student. “Summarize the benefits of living in a diverse society and how empathy and intolerance can affect behaviors.” Also, this standard touches on reproductive health that MO Shape’s national organization, SHAPE America discusses by training teachers to tell their students they can get the over the counter pill without having to tell their parents. “Examine barriers and influences (e.g. healthy and unhealthy relationships, family, culture, media, peers), generate alternatives, predict potential consequences, and evaluate effectiveness when making a sexual and reproductive health-related decision.” Also, this language is pushing groupthink in the collective in which a group will be determining what is been for an individual. Collectivism should never be fought in the United States. “Determine the value of applying thoughtful decision-making and when individual or collaborative decision-making is appropriate regarding sexual situations or experiences.” Also, here where it states “Justify when individual or collaborative decision-making is appropriate…”
Standard 6: Who defines what is “well-being?” This is behavioral change and changes attitudes, values, and beliefs which is not the role of the public school. “Assess personal health and wellness-related practices and behaviors as well as barriers to achieving a wellness-related goal.”
Standard 7: This language is more behavioral change and values clarification “Commit to practicing healthy sexual behaviors by analyzing the role of individual responsibility, evaluating personal practices and behaviors, and improving those personal practices and behaviors.” What behaviors? Who decides what is appropriate sexual behavior? The teacher? Also…. Since there is no place for comment in the Standard 8, I am putting it here in this comment box instead. Standard 8: Peer and societal norms should not guide values, beliefs, attitudes of a student. That is the role of the parent family. “Use peer and societal norms, based on accurate health information, to formulate positive personal health and wellness-related messages.” This is the SEL language that was not accepted in Fall 2023: “Engage in authentic experiences of caring, compassion and advocating for others.” Who is others? What is advocacy? Would that be affirming other groups that do not align with the values of the student and their family? None of this is academic.
***There was not a comment box available for this one, so the comments are added to the comment box before. See above above..
Glossary of terms: Many are rooted in changing attitudes, values, and beliefs. A recycled version of “Values Clarification” & and non-academic measures. Students will be assessed on their beliefs and values to create behavioral change. “Attitudes”, “Well-being”, “Assessment”, “Culture: “social institutions” what is that exactly. Competency Based Education(CBE): A student will be measured on the core competencies of affirming social norms that go against their values and that of their family. “Norms”, “Prosocial” is SEL (Social Emotional Learning), SEL was rejected by the stakeholders in the surveys last fall. Why is DESE trying to sneak it in here? Then “…acquire information and skills needed to promote human sexual development and avoid or reduce HIV, other STI’s, an unintended or miss time pregnancy.” Contraceptives, abortion? “Values”, “Well-being” Well-being will be defined by whom? CDC, CASEL?
The committee clearly went out of the scope of work assigned to them and brought in non-academic, behavioral change and values clarification agendas from organizations that do not align with the values of parents and guardians in Missouri. These narratives and psychological approaches to behavioral change in the classroom are illegal, unethical, and are not the role of a teacher in a health class. Teachers are not licensed professionals in psychology. Teachers should not be practicing psychology and behavioral change in a sweeping manner on students across an entire classroom. These standards are also being implemented without informed consent of the parents and guardians. All of these standards must be rejected.
Here is more information on the topic.
Here are examples of the questionable glossary of terms in the standards.
Many are rooted in changing attitudes, values, and beliefs. A recycled version of “Values Clarification” & and non-academic measures. Students will be assessed on their beliefs and values to create behavioral change.
“Attitudes”, “Well-being”, “Assessment”
Culture: “social institutions” what is that exactly?
Competency Based Education(CBE): A student will be measured on the core competencies of affirming social norms that go against their values and that of their family.
This author has warned that CBE was bad but it’s being funded in a pilot.
You can learn more about CBE here.
“Family Education”, “Formal Assessment”
Wouldn’t that be for the family, the parents, to structure in their own home?
“Health Literacy”? Behavioral change.
More assessments. Will those assessments be proprietary like the MAP test?
“Mastery” = Outcome Based Education
“Norms”
“Prosocial” is SEL (Social Emotional Learning)
SEL was rejected at the Fall 2023 State Board of Education review and now they are trying to usher into this law instead. 1800 public comments and majority against SEL, and yet they are still trying to mandates on Missouri children. Let that sink in.
All behavioral change 👇👇
“…acquire information and skills needed to promote human sexual development and avoid or reduce HIV, other STI’s, an unintended or miss time pregnancy.” Contraceptives, abortion?
“Values”, “Well-being”
Well-being will be defined by whom?
Well-being language is being pushed from the top down. We are seeing it in the UN SDGs as well. #3 and tied to the #15 with the WHO’s OneHealth initiative.
So how about the standards themselves? Here are a few experts. Please go this link to read all the standards being proposed. https://dese.mo.gov/media/pdf/health-and-family-education-academic-performance-standards-0
“Health-behavioral theories”
“Well-being”
As defined by whom?
The CDC.
“analyze characteristics of healthy relationships and how power differences (e.g., age, race/ethnicity, sex, gender, socio-economic status) impact relationships.”
“Reproductive health”
Seek assistance from “trusted adults” 🧐
Like this from the organization that guided these standards? MO Shape from SHAPE America?
The work group that wrote the standards was led by MO Shape’s Laura Beckmann.
Beckmann pushes CDC WSCC, SEL, NHES, HECAT and more into Missouri public schools.
Here is Beckmann in 2023 cheering about a CDC grant her organization acquired for WSCC in Missouri schools.
Full video here..
More on MOShape and MO Healthy Schools.
So how did this happen?
Missouri Senator Holly Rehder filed this original language in her 2023 SB 381.
Missouri House Representative, Bishop Davidson, added to his adult high school bill after a title change.
Full video here.
So why the new sex Ed standards when schools already have standards now?
It’s all to usher in the new CDC, SEL, HECAT, and NHES standards with updated language that is strictly focused on behavioral and values change.
This is unconstitutional and unethical.
Practicing behavioral change is illegal. How?
Teachers are not licensed to practice psychology in the classroom and these methods of instruction are practiced on students without informed consent of the parent/guardian.
This is also extremely anti-parent and anti-family.
More on CDC WSCC, Sex Ed, and HB 447 here.
What can you do?
Stop and PLEASE fill out the DESE survey by the 4/24/24 deadline using the instructions above.
Then, contact your legislators and ask them to remove this law from Missouri state statute by a repeal of 160.527 and stop 🛑 putting these non academic and anti-parent mandates on public schools.
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